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Arsenic and Old Tales
Thus the production of "Arsenic and old lace," directed by Gifford, and "The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon," directed by Beth Doster, make up the program this weekend at the Central Campus auditorium. This is Dosters first foray into directing ...
Coaster Theatre to hold auditions
CANNON BEACH — Auditions for the farcical black comedy “Arsenic and old lace” will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday and 5 p.m. Thursday at the Coaster Theatre, 108 N. Hemlock St. in Cannon Beach. This is the first show of the summer repertory ...
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arsenic and old lace is a 1944 film directed by Frank Capra based on Joseph Kesselring's play of the same name. The script adaptation was by twins Julius J.
Where can I find muisic for the play "ARSENIC AND OLD LACE"?
I am in the play and having trouble finding music for curtian calls, intermissions, and etc.
Answer: If I remember correctly (and it's been almost 11 years), when we did this show in high school, we played Mozart's "Rondo alla Turca" during intermission and the curtain call. It's a lively piece and fit with the mood of the show. :)
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Would Mr. Witherspoon from ARSENIC AND OLD LACE be considered a minor role or a walk on role?
Because if he is a minor i get 5 thespian points and if he is a walk on I only get 2. Thanks!
Answer: Mr. Gibbs would be, in my mind, considered a walk on role.
Mr. Witherspoon provides crucial plot related information and is also part of the big pay off at the end of the play. I would say a minor role.
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Movie review of 1944’s “One Body too Many”
Riffing off ideas better presented in Arsenic and old lace (first presented in 1941 as a stage play), 1944’s One Body too Many is a comedy/horror film with no supernatural components. It’s a tough film to get through, particularly if you are a hardcore ...
Arsenic & Old Lace : Anyone remember the movie and the names of the characters and the actors?
I only remember one or two names..
Answer: No, I don't remember, It was before I was born.
But I did look it up as I do most things, I want my answers to be as accurate as possible.
It was written in 1939.
Capra actually filmed the movie in 1941, but it was not released until 1944, after the original stage version had finished its run on Broadway.
This is Film Cast
Actor Role
Cary Grant Mortimer Brewster
Josephine Hull Aunt Abby Brewster
Jean Adair Aunt Martha Brewster
Raymond Massey Jonathan Brewster
Peter Lorre Dr. Herman Einstein
Priscilla Lane Elaine Harper Brewster
John Alexander Teddy "Roosevelt" Brewster
Jack Carson Officer Patrick O'Hara
John Ridgely Officer Sanders
Edward McNamara Police Sgt. Brophy
James Gleason Police Lt. Rooney
Edward Everett Horton Mr. Witherspoon
Veteran character actor Charles Lane appears as a photographer at City Hall trying to get a picture of Mortimer Brewster getting a marriage license at the beginning of the film.
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I need a good monologue with which to audition for ARSENIC AND OLD LACE. Any suggestions?
In a couple of weeks, I will be auditioning for the role of Martha Brewster in Arsenic and old lace. I desperately need to find a monologue that will be appropriate to get me the part. I dont really know enough about the play to make a decision on my own. I know the basic premise, and that Martha Brewster is the crazy old lady who kills people and buries them in the basement, but beyond that Im lost. Please help!
Answer: She's a sweet, kindly old lady who is utterly convinced she's doing a nice thing by poisoning lonely old men... Play her as the nicest grandmother ever... the humor comes from her actions being so incongruous with her personality. Maybe a subtext of being willful - but not mean or "crazy" crazy.
Try "Rest in Peace" - here http://www.arthurjolly.com/monologuesF.html
or "The Towel Lady" here http://monologuezone.com/Monologues_for_Women.html
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script to the PLAY ARSENIC AND OLD LACE?
Hey, so my schools doing Arsenic and old lace this fall :] I like the small portion of the script Ive read in the audition packet, but theres a part where Im not sure what the characters reacting to...? I dunno. Umm anyone know where I can get the full scrip? Peferably for free?
Answer: try typing in good Arsenic and old lace script for free
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Where can I find the FULL script to ARSENIC AND OLD LACE online?
I would like to read the script for Arsenic and old lace but I dont have time to go to the library and it would be more convenient to find it online. Does anyone know where I can download it or can anyone send it to me? I DO NOT want to purchase it. Thank you :)
Answer: I spent ages and ages searching for it a year ago but was never able to find it despite spending hours on Google....I think you might be out of luck!
Category: Performing Arts
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What does the phrase OLD LACE in ARSENIC AND OLD LACE mean?
I understand it will somehow mean old ladies, ie the two murderous women in the play. But how come this expression? What is the background to this phrase, if any? Or is it purely the playwrights invention?
Answer: In those days, arsenic poisoning was quite 'popular' as used in the fiction books. Arsenic was administered usually by 'lacing' it on the food - meaning, it was 'coated' on the food like meat or sweets to disguise its taste.
I would like to suggest that perhaps it means 'the old fashioned way' of administering arsenic into the food with the intention to kill someone.
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Category: Words & Wordplay
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944) - IMDb
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If The Crucible and ARSENIC AND OLD LACE were playing at the two different theaters?
on the same night, which one would you choose to go see? I myself love The Crucible, but how can I pass on Arsenic and old lace. It would be a tough descicion for me but I believe, though I love The Crucible, it is not everyday that Arsenic and old lace is produced.
Answer: I do love Arsenic, and it is to me a better show. But you are slightly wrong, it is everyday that Arsenic is produced. You can find it all the time. But not Crucible. I would say see the first, the second one will be back soon.
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How many lines do ARSENIC AND OLD LACE characters have?
Any and all characters.
Answer: Abby and Martha probably have the most lines, followed by Mortimer. Jonathan, Doctor Einstein and O'Hara are next, then Elaine, Brophy, Klein, Rooney and Teddy (Teddy is onstage a fair bit but doesn't say much!). Witherspoon, Gibbs and Dr Harper have the fewest lines.
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Baldwyn Main Street Players present ‘ARSENIC AND OLD LACE’
Next weekend’s production of “Arsenic and old lace” is the first for the Baldwyn Main Street Players, but it sure doesn’t look like it. With a sturdy set and spot-on period costumes, the company is ready to tackle its first-ever play with the ...
Any suggestions for monologues to audition for ARSENIC AND OLD LACE?
Im auditioning for Arsenic and old lace at my high school and i was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for female monologues. It cannot be a monologue from the play.
Answer: http://www.monologuearchive.com/
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Male monologue for audition for ARSENIC AND OLD LACE?
I need help finding a monologue for an audition for our production of Arsenic and old lace. I need a one minute male comedic monologue. I am not picky on what role I want because I have been in previous productions and they can pretty much place me in any role and it will be fine.
If you could help me find a one minute comedic male monologue, that would be great....or just suggestions of plays would work too.
Thanks in advance!
Answer: Go to http://www.stageagent.com/Shows/Monologues/
Fill out exactly what you want and it will show you a list of monologues.
I hope that helped. :D
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Anyone know a good male monologue from ARSENIC AND OLD LACE?
My school play is Arsenic and old lace and I cant find a single monologue does anyone know where I can find one, or have one?
Answer: A good monologue might be Mortimer's near the end, after Dr. Einstein has warned him to leave & before Jonathan ties him up. You know, when he's describing a play he's seen.
Category: Performing Arts
Anyone know exactly how many lines mortimer brewster has in ARSENIC AND OLD LACE?
???
Im looking for an exact number. I dont have the script yet and the actpr playing him really wants to know.
Answer: a LOT.
Good Luck!(:
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What does the phrase OLD LACE in ARSENIC AND OLD LACE mean?
I understand it will somehow mean old ladies, ie the two murderous women in the play. But how come this expression? What is the background to this phrase, if any? Or is it purely the playwrights invention?
Answer: Some think it refers to the ladies age.
But others say it is a turn on the saying lavender and old lace. How much of a reference to the play/novel, I'm not sure. But in the vernacular lavender and old lace came to reference the gentility of (usually) a widowed or unmarried spinster. Her home being over-decorated with touches of lace doilies, lace curtains, (lavendar) flowers in vases. So, in this situation, the two spinster sisters have the touches of the overdecorated home, but the lavender has been replaced with arsenic in the wine.
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If they were to remake "ARSENIC AND OLD LACE," what actors would be good playing the principal roles?
I have to write a paper on Arsenic and old lace, and one of the questions ask that if this movie was remade in the 21st century, who would play the principal roles?
So, who would play these roles in the remake?
Mortimer
The Aunts
Jonathan
Dr. Einstein
Elaine
Answer: Mortimer - Crispin Glover or Paul Bettany.
The Aunts - Betty White, definitely. And perhaps Debbie Reynolds...
Jonathan - Johnny Depp
Dr. Einstein - Timothy Spall
Elaine - Jennifer Aniston
I really like watching old classics, and then wondering about things like 21st century remakes and who would star in them. Of course, some classics cannot be remade (i.e. Gone With The Wind), but it's still fun to see who would become the modernized versions of the characters. :)
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ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (play) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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what are the themes of the play ARSENIC AND OLD LACE?
i know one is like "being kind is relative" because the old woman think theyre helping, but their actually making it worse. i think another theme has to do with charity, but i dont know how to wrap it up in a nice little sentence. how would you explain it?
Answer: Charity
The theme of charity is satirized in the play. The Brewster sisters appear to be quite altruistic, providing help when needed for their neighbors as well as opening their door to strangers. They make soup for the sick, serve tea and cakes for the preacher and police officers, collect toys for needy children, and provide lodging for lonely old men. They must be the right kind of men though. The sisters have their own rules about how far their charity will extend.
They do not, for example, want to think about the devastation of the war in Europe, which to them has become inconvenient because it may cause them to use "that imitation flour again" as did the first world war. Also, the war involves foreigners, who are not acceptable to the sisters. They prefer "good" American Christians, more specifically Episcopalians. Methodists like Mr. Hoskins are welcomed into their homes, but only because the sisters are so "charitable." Their own nephew Jonathan is not welcomed because his behavior throughout his life has been undesirable.
Of course, the greatest problem with the sisters' charitable activities is the fact that they have murdered eleven of the lonely men who have come to their home looking for lodging. They determine that they know best what these men need, and that only through death and a good Christian service at their burial will they find the peace they deserve. The sisters, however, make the end as painless as possible as they poison the men with elderberry wine tainted with arsenic. They are pleased with the fact that one of the men actually praised the wine right before he expired.
Insanity
The audience, along with Mortimer, soon learns that the sisters are as insane as the obviously deranged Teddy, who thinks that he is Teddy Roosevelt and so continually blows a bugle and charges up the staircase as if it were San Juan Hill. Because the sisters do not display such obvious outward signs, no one in the neighborhood believes Jonathan's claims that there are twelve bodies buried in the basement. Mortimer also has difficulty believing that his aunts were responsible for the body in the window seat, blaming it instead on Teddy, until the aunts admit their responsibility.
They handle the fact that they have just committed murder quite nonchalantly, with a cool remonstration to Mortimer to "forget you ever saw the gentleman." They find their actions perfectly justifiable and so go about their daily schedule. When Mortimer suggests that they did not tell the Reverend Harper about Mr. Hoskins because they felt guilty, they insist that the only reason they hid him was because it "would not be very nice" for the Reverend to view a body at tea. Abby adds, "I do think Martha and I have the right to our own little secrets."
Insanity runs in the family, as evidenced by reports of Teddy's grandfather, a physician who made a fortune developing medicines that he tried out, sometimes with devastating results, on his patients. Jonathan also has the family curse, having killed twelve men and threatening to kill Mortimer by torturing him. He insists that his last murder was justified since the victim accused him of looking like Boris Karloff after Dr. Einstein had botched his reconstructive surgery. This genetic defect causes Mortimer to insist that he cannot marry Elaine until, to his immense relief, the aunts tell him that he is adopted.
Theater
Kesselring also satirizes the conventions of the theater as well as those who critique it. The art of the theater reflects life only in the most absurd situations in this play. The farcical nature of the action ironically reinforces Mortimer's claims that the theater does not reflect reality, but it certainly does provide good entertainment. This point is well proven during the absurd situation Mortimer finds himself in as he describes the plot of a play he has recently seen. He tells Jonathan and Dr. Einstein, who are trying to come up with a way to subdue Mortimer so that they can torture and kill him, exactly how the murderer captures the hero. Insisting that the characterizations reveal no imagination or any reflection of reality, Mortimer is blind to the fact that he is in the exact same situation as the play's hero and has just given his brother the perfect method to carry out his murderous intentions.
Kesselring effectively satirizes the arrogance of theater critics in his portrayal of Mortimer who insists that he is always disappointed by the uninspired plays he is forced to review. He receives his comeuppance not only by providing Jonathan with a successful method to set him up for murder, but also as he is forced to listen all night to Officer O'Hara's tedious summary of the play that he has written.
Hope these 3 themes help somewhat, I love this play hope you did too. :)
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